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Lightning strikes to spark more Arctic fires: study – Global Times
Lightning strikes inside the Arctic circle may double this century, sparking widespread tundra fires and increasing the risk of setting off the carbon time bomb…
Lightning strikes inside the Arctic circle may double this century, sparking widespread tundra fires and increasing the risk of setting off the carbon time bomb held within permafrost, new research showed Monday.
Lightning strikes over San Pietro mountain, close from Ajaccio, in the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica, on August 9, 2013. Photo: VCG
The permafrost of North America and Siberia contains enough carbon dioxide to roughly double all the carbon currently in Earth’s atmosphere, and there…
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